RE: Enough of this crap, I want to hear directly from god
November 30, 2020 at 9:46 am
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2020 at 9:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 30, 2020 at 9:33 am)WinterHold Wrote:(November 30, 2020 at 9:27 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: A test should be unfair, because it's a good thing for you to know that your life is worthless? Do I have that right?
Exactly; if the putter of the test wanted you to learn that life is worthless.
Look at the Roman and the ancient Egyptian monuments, the builders are long gone and dead, so would we. Life is worthless.
That's an interesting bridge between what is and what should be - and it looks like it's exposing other fundamental assumptions that you might need to re-consider.
The artifacts of high culture would appear to impart even more worth (if worth, as it seems to be, is something that lasts) to roman and egyptian people than any of the unknown multitudes of tribes and villages and towns lost to history and archaeology. Even those relative unfortunates, though, still contributed to something which lasted. Worked hard. Went through the full range of human achievement and failure, and all of the experiences that go with that. Here we are.
Others may not find life to be worthless, as you do - and this belief...not any god belief, is what looks to be informing your moral conclusion about what tests should or shouldn't be. I think I could agree with you in principle. That it's good to know true things. That knowing some terrible true thing would still be of greater value than remaining ignorant of the same. The trouble, here, is that I'm also completely certain that your belief that life is worthless is entirely false. Is this something you could see me telling my children? Is this something that you would tell yours? Did someone tell you this, as a child?
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